On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:55:25 -0400, Julia Altshuler
> wrote:

>Mark A.Meggs wrote:
>>
>> May not be available. Most American oats are "rolled" oats. Steel-cut
>> oats are easy to find, but I don't think I've ever seen ground oats.
>
>
>Quaker Oats makes rolled oats which are called "old fashioned." They
>also make "quick 1-minute" oats which are rolled oats that have been
>chopped a bit. I use them in oatmeal cookies. If you take either one
>and spin it in a food processor with a steel blade for a while, you get
>ground oats or oat flour. I use it all the time in baking. I like the
>flavor.
>
>
>--Lia

Thanks Lia,

I'm going to have to experiment. The picture in the link shows what
looks to me to be coarsely ground whole oats - oat grain ground in a
mill with steel burrs or stones. Rolled oats are run between 2
closely spaced steel rollers and flattened into the flakey stuff that
we call oatmeal.

I don't know what effect the difference will have on the final
product. The quick bread in question is Scottish bannock - similar in
concept to American johnnycake.

- Mark